Former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will soon be a free man, no longer needing to report to the police under a draconian control order. He was only recently regarded as a threat to society. Now, apparently, he’s harmless. What changed? It’s called political opportunism to scare the public into believing authorities are protecting…
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Torture is liberating
Barack Obama has pledged to close Guantanamo Bay and rebuild “America’s moral stature in the world”. Noble sentiments, but evidence is mounting that the use of torture will continue as a policy of the US.
What’s a little slapping between friends?
For the first time, a full picture based on Pentagon operations manuals of the American torture program employed in Guantanamo and domestic torture centers has emerged.
Yet another thing most Americans don’t know about
What exactly is Africa’s Guantanamo Bay? (Hint: a series of secret prisons monitored by the Americans to house “terrorists.”)
Never discount the joyful torture option
Torture at Guantanamo Bay is a laugh-a-minute (if you’re on the lunar Right and believe that every “terrorist” caught by the US is guilty without charge):
Stealing their youth
As a video emerges of a child being interrogated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the moral and legal bankruptcy of the “war on terror” is clearer by the day:
How we deal with dictators
The essential website Wikileaks releases yet another coup: During the 2007 Presidential election campaigns in Kenya, an international furore developed around the existence of a “secret” Memorandum of Understanding signed by Raila Odinga (now Prime Minister of Kenya) and the National Muslim Leaders’ Forum. A forged version of this Memorandum of Understanding was in email…
Just another innocent man
The troubling case of Adel Hamad, imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for five years without trial: Get involved at projecthamad.org
How we prosecute “terrorists”
The “war on terror” means imprisonment, torture, extraordinary rendition, Western complicity and a travesty of justice. And Britain is involved up to its neck: A British resident who is facing the death penalty in Guantanamo Bay has made a final desperate plea to Gordon Brown to end his six-year ordeal and bring him home today.…